Your life is hid with Christ in God. — Colossians 3:3 The Spirit of God witnesses to the simple almighty security of the life hid with Christ in God and this is continually brought out in the Epistles. We talk as if it were the most precarious thing to live the sanctified life; it is […]
Category: Growth
Wrestling Before God
Take up the whole armor of God . . . praying always . . . —Ephesians 6:13,18 You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for other people; but to wrestle with God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever do wrestle with God, you […]
The Supremacy of Jesus Christ
He will glorify Me . . . —John 16:14 The holiness movements of today have none of the rugged reality of the New Testament about them. There is nothing about them that needs the death of Jesus Christ. All that is required is a pious atmosphere, prayer, and devotion. This type of experience is not […]
The Undetected Sacredness of Circumstances
We know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . . —Romans 8:28 The circumstances of a saint’s life are ordained of God. In the life of a saint there is no such thing as chance. God by His providence brings you into circumstances that you can’t understand at […]
From One Source Only
Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. John 1: 17. Your strength and growth in grace come only from one source. If when you are tempted and tried you stand bravely for the right, victory is yours. You are one step nearer to perfection of Christian character. A holy light from heaven fills the chambers […]
When We Fail
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Micah 7: 8. Nothing but divine power can regenerate the human heart and imbue souls with the love of Christ, which will ever manifest itself with love for those […]
We Must Follow On
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning. Hosea 6: 3. Christ came to teach the human family the way of salvation, and He made this way so plain that a little child can walk in it. He bids His disciples follow on […]
In Humility
Be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5: 5. The confiding love and unselfish devotion manifested in the life and character of John present lessons of untold value to the Christian church. John did not naturally possess the loveliness of character that his later experience […]
First, an Empty Heart
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Mark 12: 30, 31. On these two commandments the whole […]
HOW TO GROW
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3: 18. It is the privilege of the young, as they grow in Jesus, to grow in spiritual grace and knowledge. We may know more and more of Jesus through an interested searching of the Scriptures, and then […]